How Sylvia's Dishes Out Harlem's Most Legendary Soul Food | Legendary Eats
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Sylvia's Restaurant in Harlem, NYC, has been an iconic soul food restaurant and cultural institution for 57 years. We learned to cook up their famous ribs and fried chicken and waffles from the grandson of the founder herself, Sylvia Woods.
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How Sylvia's Dishes Out Harlem's Most Legendary Soul Food | Legendary Eats
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Someplace that cuts the silverskin off their ribs maybe.... lol, then it will be "fall off the bone" tender lol. Noobs.
Intown cafe in Covington Ga
BK in Tucson Arizona
I grew up eating Sylvia’s on the regular but it’s nothing like it used to be when she was alive. Her niece has a spot called Amy Ruth’s which is really good like Sylvia’s used to be. They all was in business together but it seems like Amy took the recipes or secret ingredients with her! Lol 😂
who makes this sh*t up :-? A jewish man owns Amy Ruth's and has since he bought the entire building and restaurant from Carl Redding years ago. I swear people make anything up.
illerThanMost Relax & calm your nerves! Thanks for the update. Her niece left them & joined Amy Ruth’s! Her interview portrayed as if she owned it. I was there many yrs ago. So the Jews bought it like they buying everything else they could. Glad he was able to sell it & not lose it. Their family legacy brand still lives on!
NY Nay what an ass she is
Amys collards have no flavor
NY Nay no Any Ruth's is owned by a man nothing to do with her at all
That’s why Sylvia’s food was so good... She was from South Carolina! She brought that southern hand up north with her.
Sylvia was such a sweetheart. I went there before and after she passed; it is not the same, she used to walk around and talk to customers like you were family visiting her, especially when they had the Jazz Brunch on Sundays, it was packed. I went back in 2014 and the food seemed a lot of "from the can" or "frozen" collard greens; this is what happens when soul food becomes just another stop on the tourist buses that stop there for out of state and foreigners who will not know what Sylvia was like back when she used to put her foot in it, lol.
“I love the fried chicken”
Eating the ribs 😂😂
Crumble 123 IRONIC right
He could like both tho df
Dylan Hazard ok
I went in 2014 i live in texas i got catish fingers macaroni and cheese and vegetables the mac and cheese was good
Crumble 123 when
Sylvia's is not the same since it was sold this is just selling the hype, it's over, being from Harlem we know it's not the same, it's been like this for a while.
Shon John ... exactly shit been nasty for years now
MR NYC lol damn.
Shon John how come?
@@steph.li3 The food taste completely different and the service is not the same.
@@mrnyc. You made me so sad.
Between Sylvia's and Mo's burgers they fed a whole population, not just generations. I went to Sylvia's in my first family trip to NY, I went to Mo's in my first solo international trip. Throw in Joe's Pizza, Papaya King and the cheap Chinatown restaurants to the equation and trust me, they made my trip the best
"Fall of the bone tender".......hand shakes as she struggles to take meat off with a fork
Lol I nearly choked on my water reading this
Exactly what I thought 😄😄😂😂😂
Hahahhaha someone had to say it!
Flint's BBQ was much more tender.
TEXAS BBQ WOULD NEVERRRR!!
I'm team Sylvia's all day, everyday, always slamming customer service, dope food, on the money music and entertainment, fantastic experience. My birthday breakfast, every year, past 12years.
As a native New Yorker this is one of those tourist spots YOU AVOID!
Why?
Lol they devote a whole video to it and u say it’s shit ( basically) why though?
Facts its not good tbh, use to be though
Yeah I could tell something was up when the grandson was wearing a casio with a gold bracelet and seasoning the ribs. Plus that old guy in the back is probably the real chef.
TUS_ MILO because before it became attraction it used to be a local gem. With the added demand from the publicity the food is just rushed out. There’s no love in the food anymore, it’s just a generic recipe. There’s used to be an old man cheffing it up in the back and they put young cats in the front who have revamped their old recipes to cater to new needs.
I'm lucky to call NY my neck of the woods. Home of good food and diverse culture
One incredible city.
ZULU MATUBU Uh no, I bet you don’t even live in NY. Your opinion doesn’t count since you’re not an actual New Yorker. Nice try though
@ZULU MATUBU Lol i seen a video of them having rats the size of cats
@@AverytheCubanAmerican home of the rats
@@usofa-zm5vx Every city has rats, you "Harvard" graduate. I bet you graduated from a sketchy online college instead. Not just NY
I’ve eaten here twice. It changed my life!! I’m from the south (Memphis)and we swear can’t nobody throw down like us. Well it’s true BUT Sylvias was just amazing!! I’m a big fan.
Yes I ate at Sylvia's back in December 2002, with my honey from Lake Jackson Texas. We had the smother stake, and smother chicken with greens and Mac and cheese rice and grave, and corn bread.
Highlight of are Xmas that year. Thank you blessing us with soul food.
This video is making my mouth water from 15 years ago... the first time I had it! They run such an amazing establishment... can't beleive she didn't get the candied yams 🤦🏾♀️😆
If the ribs ain’t SMOKED THEY AINT COOKED RIGHT!
Boiled and NOT real bbq like down south.No smoke ring in sight or bark
PERIODTTTT
Fr...if it ain't smoke low and slow it ain't real Q.
Hey guys check out my CZcams channel "Chef King Fresh " quick easy meals...
There's different styles of ribs. Smoking is but one.
I checked out her cookbook in high school and her recipes are amazing
I just love that her family is continuing her legacy. It honestly made me cry to see how passionate they are. I love this.
Ai
Im from NY and Sylvia's food is not what it used to be. This place is overrated and only tourists think this place is good. Amy Ruth's is so much better
sundae6969 facts!!!! Commercialized...not the same
@@RD49x Thank you. Im glad someone agrees with me
Completely agree... it has REALLY gone downhill
Shhh let all the tourist eat at Sylvias so I can go to Amy Ruth's without a wait!😎
@@davidpinckney8263 Good luck with that. Only the people who have been to that place back in the day know that the food isnt the same
Been there several times. Food is delicious. Harlem is a unique place so many different cultures and beautiful architecture all around. Much love from Cali
Ate at Sylvia’s some years back, the candied yams were fantastic. I also love the Collard greens.
Hungry and emo after watching this
You're and emo ?
Bro, stop following me.
LEGIT UR EVERYWHERE
Expected you to comment on this
@@darkdragon-rg5ev yes and I work for him
Food Insider editior: so how loud do you want the music?
Producer: Yes.
😂
To Bedelia, Van, Tiffany, Kenny Thomas......Thank you so much for what you all have done for me and my career.... We had a great run with the Atlanta location in the late 90's..I put myself through CAU...It's been years but I truly love y'all and Thank you.
Hi!, your video is great
that looks awesome.
I am saving this!
The smothered chicken was amazing here! I will never forget it!
Babydoll..you should model!
The chicken at Sylvia's is good AF. It's funny how when neighborhood places become famous (tourists visiting them) the community ...especially black folk ...start talking down on it. It always happens.
So why is it when white ppl come to the neighborhood everything becomes expensive for the blacks of the same community that helped that same business get to the success these tourist know today? the food for the price is not worth it......
@@elallen4399 have you ever purchased anything (especially food) that is the same price it was 10 years ago? Is your rent what it was 10 years ago?
@@apeshit111906 yes I have and I know the difference between inflation and extreme gentrification the same plate u get here and pay $25 u can get in the same area for $12-$15
The point I was making was toward the comment of black ppl saying negative when a place gets famous
@@elallen4399 Crabs in a barrell
I,m from N.C., Sylvia was my Southern Soul Sustah from S.C.!!!!!
Glad to see that her family is carrying on with what she started. Keep up the good work Woods family.
Miss Sylvia is a woman that everyone would want as a Ma or Grandma, posting from a 60 yr old Irishman who's family is from rural Kentucky, btw, I have a great Christian Ma also that is a great cook
I ate here it was amazing I had corn bread, greens, catfish and it was SO good. Oh and an iced tea I think. Im English and was visiting my brother who lives in New Jersey. The people in Harlem we passed were so cute, one shop has a cat that they brought out so my young daughters could stroke it, my youngest daughter was 18 months old and a lot of the friendly locals gave her a wave and kept commenting on her blonde hair. Dont beleive the bad comments on Harlem our experience was brillaint.
Just started using Sylvia's seasonings about 6 months to a year ago. Now I'm getting a bit of history on it RIH OG. "MOTHER OF HARLEM". This was a great Docu
I love love Soul food! This is making me so hungry!
Looks good. Happy for the family.
"Fall off the bone ribs " ..... uses fork to pull off tough and stale meat 🤣🤧
lmaoo ikrrr
LoL
You make better ribs?
Seemed like it
Drew Anthony-Ryan do you?
Been there back in the mid 80's .Loved it. Met the women. When I ate there Boxing manager Don King was dining there. Great food and the experience was awesome.
This is a lovely video and good to learn more about Sylvias.
Why would you rub seasoning onto your meat right before dumping it into brine? Lol. It's just going to wash all off and dissolve. Why wouldn't you put it into the brine, THEN pat it dry, THEN rub on the seasoning?
That would require common sense
You obviously dont know how it works.
@@taetm8868 yh u don't
Tae TM pls explain
😆😆😆 okay!
That looks so darn good 😋
We ate at Sylvia's Restaurant during a field trip to Harlem, NY with the NE Georgia's Upward Bound program. I was heading into my senior year of high school. It was the summer of 1997. I graduated a year later in June of 1998. To this day, I can STILL recall the flavor or those greens! And it's 2024 now! PHEW! Amazing cuisine! Absolutely amazing!!!
I'll for sure stop by next time I get to visit NYC
That chicken looked dry.
Fried chicken breast is almost always dry.
trust ...it's not. I don't even eat breast ...but had it with waffles there and it was juicy and banging. Facts
YESSS THAT'S WHAT I SAID. I'M NOT BLIND... THEY TORE IT APART IN SLOW MOTION AND WE SAW...... DRY ASS CHICKEN... NO JUICE😢 And, chicken breast are not always dry when cooked correctly. 😉
ikr & it was a breast! it looked over cooked &dry..in my house i call that fried chicken abuse!
That loooksss
*RAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWW*
my food didn’t look like that, everything was smooshed on on plate, with barely any seasoning.never going there again
Mia Byrd Starshine coming from a true southerner...honestly the food did not look that appealing.
@@IamKrissyKO those ribs did not look good.
what did it taste like? (the food)
Mia Byrd Starshine was it expensive?
Agreed. They make it look good for the camera, but once you actually go there. It’s very underwhelming.
Sylvia's, a Harlem Legend 🙌
Looks awesome
I'm from Carlsbad New Mexico and damn my mouth is watering watching this. R.I.P Sylvia, maybe some day I'll have the opportunity to taste😋
Food in southern nm way better then that fyi
Hobbs nm has a few good BBQ joints
True soul food fried chicken is cooked in a 50 year old cast iron skillet in lard at a Grandma's kitchen.
K hun but we ain't all gonna fit in her kitchen so let's enjoy this nice restaurant. I went there in 2011 and I loved it
Lard is not the only tasty dish. Lard must be attached to hypertension.
@@Markelekram 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Do people not realize to get taste you need to sacrifice some stuff. Thank god Tennessee barbecue did not bow down to hipsters and kept all the lard in every recipe. I think the 2000s fad diets ruined Sylvia’s and other places. Granted I have never been there but this is just my theory. Plus the food looked horrendous I have never seen such dry ribs.
Using lard to fry your food in a deep fryer is easier and taste just as good, just don't think it happened here. That chicken breast looked incredibly dry no matter how much she tried to open it and say it was juicy.
Omg wow my mouth is watering...mmm looks so good
On my way here now I can’t wait
Violets are blue
Roses are red
I like to watch videos
Before I go to bed
In bed watching right now!
*Roses are red violets are blue* and it didn't work out.. (not being rude..)
Violets are violet, though.
“The ribs are fall off the bone tender” well she’s yanking the meat off with a fork and it’s barely coming off 😂🤣
The food there is great. ❤️
I just had lunch,but now I’m hungry again! Thanx a lot.
Best BBQ ever....
2009-2010
Johnson Bbq in San Francisco
3:23 Bill Cosby adding the special sauce.
Mayo? 😂😂😂😂😂
Me too I would order the same as you one of everything,good video ☺
My mouth was watering at the mac and cheese and ribs.
Sylvia’s success is #trending. I’ve been there a couple of times. It’s good food! But that’s why high ends go.
But still good.
I need to plan a trip right now.
AWESOME !!!!
I went there and it was sooo good!
IN THE SOUTH WHERE SOUL FOOD ORIGINATED WE DO NOT BAKE RIBS SORRY IM SURE THEY'RE GOOD BUT NAW ILL PASS
That’s disgusting. I’m from the south and I know if I ever go up north I’d better not ever hear a New Yorker talking about soul food.
They looked tuff
The south is full of a bunch of unhealthy whales!
Wow wow so America has two different food culture. South and North with some special food.
@@raifikarj6698 Every part of the country, and each state has a different take on food and recipes! The perfect melting pot at work in America when it comes to food!
I ate at Sylvia's a long, long time ago. I don't remember when it was. I don't recall what I ate. I remember that it must have been great, because everybody says it's great. It must have been great, because it had to be great. Madam Sylvia came and greeted us, looking simply divine in diamond earrings and a heavily used apron. There were a couple of big shot politicians there, especially the U.S. Representative who will always be the Big Man on the Congressional Campus! I thought the place would be kinda pretentiously bourgeois. No! It was laid back and cool. People were there to drink heavily and eat the finest soul food in the world beyond Africa and the cotton plantations in the southern U.S.A. All I remember was that I was drinking, laughing and dining with friends, and gorging my toothpick of a self. I probably left Sylvia's ten-pounds heavier, happier, and hungry as heaven! God rest your Great Soul Food Soul, Madame Sylvia. Say hi to God for me please. And let God try some of those smackin' CHICKEN LIVERS, Sautéed w/ Onions & Peppers, Topped w/ Gravy, Seasoned to Perfection w/ Fresh Herbs.
Now that is food for the soul. Mmmm. I feel good just watching this.
Love it makes me want to go back
Just when I am about to change my diet I get this in my recommends...🤦🏽♀️...lol
sunflower power just workout like crazy 😉
😄
I’m happy she did this episode by herself. 👏🏾
This is SoulFood👏
My favorite was chicken & dumplings over rice. For breakfast I’d always get the salmon cakes & grits with a side of pancakes😋
The food looks pretty but it doesn't look like soul food. Looks like it has a very normal taste like something u can get out a box.
It's ok! Much better places
Because white ppl don't like it when you season food
👎...it looks like a tasty homecooked meal to me ☺
El Allen France is known for amazing food and I don’t see that many black people there...
@@elallen4399 I thought it's a black owned business, so your saying they don't season it? Or you just being racist?
I came here looking for her turkey recipe..the only one my momma used! I came out with a history lesson in an amazing woman . 😻
loved this place!!
You're basic!
Great, great video.
Take your jewelry off when you cook chef.
niggaz lol. theyd wear jordans to a cow dung shoveling job
Texas Gun niggaz? Really? Interesting. I bet you wouldnt be so brave in person😉😂
Texas Gun lmao 2007 called 😭
@@AkosuaFire it's what you people are though lol
@@JWB86 Funny cuz i live in a town FULL of raging racists such as yourself, and not ONE of them has had the nerve to call me out of my name to my face. Yet, the internet makes your cowardly kind “brave”😉. 😂😂😂
Totally heaven
Fake
Keep seeing u everywhere
Are you God
How can you be everywhere?
Your back
@@kadei7117 😐
Love this reviewer .....she's the best.
Love this place
Where my worth it watchers at?
CZcamsr#69 what's up Worth It is the best
Yeaaaaaaa
“I loveeee the fried chicken”
Eats ribs-😂😂😒
Got my mouth watering
Had a Thanksgiving there 12 years ago, pretty good service, value, and tasty.
squidward will have a hard time enjoying these soul foods
How?
Oh please! I have no soul!
I would love a Mama like Silvia
Sylvia's is amazing! 🇵🇷
My Cherokee/Irish heart.....love Sylvia's. Those collards are heavenly, although my own Nana had her own style. I love to cook our food, turned my husband onto it (he is Israeli/German American)
I have always heard about this restaurant and how good it is. But I also heard some not so good things, like how it's not all that,etc. I guess it depends on who is cooking that day and where there mindset is.
Also, I looked up their menu and they are pricey! And they charge you if you want to take out your left overs.
Her: Fall off the bone tender
( Uses fork to pull it apart)
Chris Austria Looks tough.
Grandson chef loves his Job, kudos !
Looks so good.
Why is the show producer in that kitchen with No Hair Net or her hair put up ?
Matilda Bishops
Nobody wearing gloves either.
@@johngullo9420 ...I was trying to be nice..lol
I send my colodences to Sylvia and her family❤also I'll take a plate😍
I wanna go there! I can't wait to move to NYC next year to go to the Harlem restaurants I've heard about
One day I am going to eat ther...mmmm looks so good...thank you food insider
4:30 "I just literally smell the love coming off this plate". No thats metaphorical. Damn Americans and everything being "literally"
We do use literally way too much, I do it too and I am trying to stop.
Literally one of the most annoying things we do, well maybe aside from the sarcasm we share...
These are resteraunts i need to visit one day
awesome place
POWERFUL AMAZING SOUL💯 FOOD NICE THANKS YOU AIANA ⚘.♥️🖤💚BROWN FAMILY ALWAYS DAPHNE COTTON 💜🦋.
I can't really speak on it but... I'm black, my moms... my whole family is from NY. I kno what good soul food looks, smells, & taste like, and this ain't it. From my stand point, it looks like what use to be a family oriented thing where ur just laughing, having fun... like a cook out, or family reunion type deal to a 'we gotta make this food look better, it's all about presentation'. There is no real presentation when it comes to soul food. This ain't meant to look like no 5 star meal. Also I feel they just have family working there just to keep the vibe and so they won't have to work for anybody else lol.
You're right, I gave Slyvia's a try for the first time last year, I live in Brooklyn. Chicken was mostly dry but crunchy. Mac n cheese was literally mac n cheese. The greens, I cannot fathom them being the original greens Sylvia made all those years ago, I just can't. The only good thing I had was the cornbread, light and a little sweet. The barbecue sauce on the ribs resembles Dallas BBQ (the chain) rather than any genuine homemade sauce I've bought and enjoyed below Maryland. I make better Soul food than this restaurant and I'm West Indian - American.
Ah bummer... was hoping to try it. Are there any soul food places you’d recommend in NY? (Doesn’t have to be Manhattan) I am moving there this summer.
KFC AND WATERMELON
I am Hispanic and I’ve eaten a lot of good food anyone who knows food and how to cook knows what good food looks like. This definitely doesn’t look it and I haven’t even ate here yet which I never will.
All the tourists think this is good 😂😂. It’s overrated, not what it used to be.
Yummu yum yum yum. I can look at food and tell it's good.
I want to eat there right now, right now, I would go to NYC just for that because the food looks SO GOOD!